Peshmerga confiscates machine used by ISIS for digging tunnels
Ami Rojkes Dombe
| 30/10/2016
[The machine IS used for drilling and digging tunnels. (Photo: Shahab Botani and Shwan Zangana)]
Kurdish Peshmerga forces recently confiscated a drilling machine the Islamic State was using to dig their underground tunnels, according to a report on kurdistan24.
Judging by the published photo, ISIS is using a very simple version of a tunnel boring machine. Apparently, the excavated soil is removed by hand using bags, which can also be used to support the tunnel.
During the fighting in Mosul in recent days, ISIS fighters dug quite a few tunnels. Earlier evidence was found in Iraq and Syria.
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Haim Iserovich, a doctoral student in Terrorism Studies at Bar-Ilan University and the foreign affairs correspondent of Ma'ariv Newspaper, contributed to this article.
[The machine IS used for drilling and digging tunnels. (Photo: Shahab Botani and Shwan Zangana)]
Kurdish Peshmerga forces recently confiscated a drilling machine the Islamic State was using to dig their underground tunnels, according to a report on kurdistan24.
Judging by the published photo, ISIS is using a very simple version of a tunnel boring machine. Apparently, the excavated soil is removed by hand using bags, which can also be used to support the tunnel.
During the fighting in Mosul in recent days, ISIS fighters dug quite a few tunnels. Earlier evidence was found in Iraq and Syria.
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Haim Iserovich, a doctoral student in Terrorism Studies at Bar-Ilan University and the foreign affairs correspondent of Ma'ariv Newspaper, contributed to this article.
